Total construction spending (year-to-date) vs Average hourly earnings of all employees in United States
Total construction spending (year-to-date) (multi-month) and Average hourly earnings of all employees (monthly) in United States. They are published at different intervals, so each is drawn on its own rather than matched period by period.
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United States. Total construction spending (year-to-date) is published as multi-month figures and average hourly earnings of all employees as monthly ones, so they are drawn on separate charts, and no period is matched between them. Read each on its own.
Total construction spending (year-to-date)
Unit: billion USD · 2 observations
Estimates are listed as such in the table below
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| Period | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| January–July 2025 | Estimate | 1,289.7 billion USD |
| January–July 2026 | Estimate | 1,244.6 billion USD |
Average hourly earnings of all employees
Unit: USD · 4 observations
Estimates are listed as such in the table below
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| Period | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Actual | 43.5 USD |
| May 2026 | Actual | 43.5 USD |
| June 2026 | Actual | 43.4 USD |
| July 2026 | Estimate | 43.9 USD |
Shared periods
Side by side
No period lines up: total construction spending (year-to-date) is multi-month and average hourly earnings of all employees is monthly. A month and a year are not the same measurement window, so no row pairs them.
Provenance
Where these numbers come from
Total construction spending (year-to-date)
The cumulative total value of construction work put in place during the first seven months of the year.
2 observations charted in United States · source organisations: Census Bureau
Average hourly earnings of all employees
Mean hourly wage rate earned by all employees in the industry.
4 observations charted in United States · source organisations: BLS
Data published under CC BY 4.0. Series A as JSON · Series B as JSON
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